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  Blocking Digestive Enzymes May Reverse Shock, Stop Multiorgan Failure

  January 23, 2013 — New research moves researchers closer to understanding and developing treatments for shock, sepsis and multiorgan failure. Collectively, these maladies represent a major unmet medical need: they are ... > full story
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  Stimulator Device Offers Treatment Option for Children With Incontinence

  January 23, 2013 — Incontinence is typically a condition associated with adults; however, many children also struggle with incontinence – bladder, bowel or both. In order to help these children, doctors have ... > full story
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  Drug Combination Extends Pancreatic Cancer Patient Survival, Study Suggests

  January 22, 2013 — A multi-center Phase III clinical trial demonstrates that Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel) plus gemcitabine is the first combination of cancer drugs to extend survival of late-stage pancreatic cancer ... > full story
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  New Method of Predicting Response to Chemotherapy in Bowel Cancer

  January 18, 2013 — Scientists have developed a new method of predicting which patients with bowel (colorectal) cancer will respond effectively to ... > full story
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  Good Bacteria in the Intestine Prevent Diabetes, Study Suggests

  January 18, 2013 — All humans have enormous numbers of bacteria and other micro-organisms in the lower intestine. New research suggests that the influence of the intestinal bacteria extends deep inside the body to ... > full story
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  Lack of Key Enzyme in the Metabolism of Folic Acid Leads to Birth Defects

  January 17, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that the lack of a critical enzyme in the folic acid metabolic pathway leads to neural tube birth defects in developing ... > full story
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  Potential New Treatment for Gastrointestinal Cancers Discovered

  January 17, 2013 — Researchers have identified a complex of proteins that promotes the growth of some types of colon and gastric cancers, and shown that medications that block the function of this complex have the ... > full story
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  Pill-Sized Device Provides Rapid, Detailed Imaging of Esophageal Lining

  January 13, 2013 — Physicians may soon have a new way to screen patients for Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition usually caused by chronic exposure to stomach acid. Researchers have developed an imaging ... > full story
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  Multiple Sclerosis Drug May One Day Treat Colorectal Cancer

  January 9, 2013 — After uncovering a mechanism that promotes chronic intestinal inflammation and the development of colorectal cancer, scientists have found that fingolimod, a drug currently approved for the treatment ... > full story
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  Disappearing Bacterium May Protect Against Stroke

  January 9, 2013 — An especially virulent strain of the gut bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) isn’t implicated in the overall death rate of the U.S. population, and may even protect against stroke and ... > full story

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